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  • The Evolution of Chinese Medicine

    Song Dynasty, 960–1200

    de Asaf Goldschmidt ...
    Series series Needham Research Institute Series
    The history of Chinese medicine hinges on three major turning points: the formation of canonical theory in the Han dynasty; the transformation of medicine via the integration of earlier medical theories and practices in the Song dynasty; and the impact of Western medicine from the nineteenth century onwards. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the crucial second stage in the evolution of ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Medical Practice in Twelfth-century China – A Translation of Xu Shuwei’s Ninety Discussions [Cases] on Cold Damage Disorders

    de Asaf Goldschmidt ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book is an annotated translation of Xu Shuwei’s (1080–1154) collection of 90 medical case records – Ninety Discussions of Cold Damage Disorders (shanghan jiushi lun 傷寒九十論) – which was the first such collection in China. The translation reveals patterns of social as well as medical history. This book provides the readers with a distinctive first hand perspective on twelfth-century medical ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

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  • The Last Empress

    Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China

    de Hannah Pakula ...
    “This is a triumph of both research and storytelling.” —Walter Isaacson, author of Steve JobsFrom the bestselling author of The Last Romantic comes a history of modern China throughout the 20th century—from the revolution that ended over 2,000 years of monarchy, followed by World War II, and ending in the loss to the Communist party—and the beautiful, but ruthless, woman at its center.An epic and ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds

    A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road, and the Rise of Modern China

    de Eric Enno Tamm ...
    On July 6, 1906, Baron Gustaf Mannerheim boarded the midnight train from St. Petersburg, charged by Czar Nicholas II to secretly collect intelligence on the Qing Dynasty's sweeping reforms that were radically transforming China. The last czarist agent in the so–called Great Game, Mannerheim chronicled almost every facet of China's modernization, from education reform and foreign investment to ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Modern China

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Rana Mitter ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient civilization that is still trying to find a modern identity. This Very Short ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Land of the Five Flavors

    A Cultural History of Chinese Cuisine

    de Thomas O. Höllmann ...
    Traducido por Karen Margolis ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    Renowned sinologist Thomas O. Höllmann tracks the growth of food culture in China from its earliest burial rituals to today's Western fast food restaurants, mapping Chinese cuisine's geographical variations and local customs, indigenous factors and foreign influences, trade routes, and ethnic associations. Höllmann details the food practices of major Chinese religions and the significance of ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD

  • Shanghai Lalas

    de Hong Kong University Press ...
    This is the first ethnographic study of lala (lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) communities and politics in China, focusing on the city of Shanghai. Based on several years of in-depth interviews, the volume concentrates on lalas’ everyday struggle to reconcile same-sex desire with a dominant rhetoric of family harmony and compulsory marriage, all within a culture denying women’s active and ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Maoism and the Chinese Revolution

    A Critical Introduction

    de Elliott Liu ...
    Series series Revolutionary Pocketbooks
    The Chinese Revolution changed the face of the twentieth century, and the politics that issued from it—often referred to as “Maoism”—resonated with colonized and oppressed people from the 1970s down to the anticapitalist movements of today. But how did these politics first emerge? And what do they offer activists today, who seek to transform capitalist society at its very foundations?Maoism and ... Leer más

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  • Chinese Modern

    The Heroic and the Quotidian

    de Xiaobing Tang, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Chinese Modern examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent twentieth century. Analyzing a rich array of literary, visual, theatrical, and cinematic texts, Xiaobing Tang portrays the cultural transformation of China from the early 1900s through the founding of the People’s Republic, the installation of the socialist realist aesthetic, the collapse of the idea ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West

    The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France

    Edición de Louise Tythacott ...
    Series series The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950
    In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity

    The Dandy, the Flaneur, and the Translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris

    de Hsiao-yen Peng ...
    Series series Academia Sinica on East Asia
    This book views the Neo-Sensation mode of writing as a traveling genre, or style, that originated in France, moved on to Japan, and then to China. The author contends that modernity is possible only on "the transcultural site"—transcultural in the sense of breaking the divide between past and present, elite and popular, national and regional, male and female, literary and non-literary, inside and ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Japan–China Relations in the Modern Era

    de Akio Takahara, Ryosei Kokubun, Yoshihide Soeya, Shin Kawashima ...
    Traducido por Keith Krulak ...
    From before the dawn of recorded history, there has been a rich flow of interaction between Japan and China. Japan has long learned many things from Chinese civilization, and since the modern era China began to learn from Japan. In the twenty-first century, however, China surpassed Japan in terms of GDP in 2010 to become the world’s second largest economy. Amid this rapid rise of China and what ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD